For the purpose of this chapter, certain words, phrases and terms shall be construed as set forth in this section:
ALTERATION: Any act or process which changes one or more of the exterior architectural features of a building structure, landscape, roadway, park area or object designated for preservation, and any act defined as an alteration by the building or zoning regulations of the village.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: (A)A building or structure designed by or associated with a noted architect, builder or architectural firm, including those designed by Olmsted, Vaux And Company, William LeBaron Jenney, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Ashby, Howard L. Cheney, William Drummond, George Elmslie, Louis Guenzel, William Purcell, Howard Van Doren Shaw, Joseph Silsbee, Robert Spenser, Tallmadge and Watson, Charles F. Whittlesey and Frederick Withers.
(B)A building or structure which is an example of a particular style in terms of detail, material or workmanship, and which possesses a high degree of integrity, having undergone little or no alteration since its construction, including those designed in the federalist, Swiss gothic and prairie styles of architecture.
(C)A building or structure which is one of a contiguous grouping of such buildings or structures having a sense of cohesiveness expressed through a similarity of characteristics of a style, period or method of construction and accenting the architectural significance of the whole group, as demonstrated by the grouping of structures comprising the Avery Coonley Estate and the grouping of structures comprising the Thorncroft faculty residence and gardener's cottage.
(D)The general plan of Riverside and the park and roadway system, including the ornamental streetlights, established pursuant thereto.
BOARD: President and board of trustees of the village.
BUILDING: A structure constructed or erected to accommodate any form of human activity including, but not limited to, a house or dwelling unit, church, commercial structure, school, public or governmental building or structure, and any structure defined as a building by the building or zoning regulations of the village 1 .
CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS: A certificate issued by the commission approving and authorizing plans for alteration, construction, renovation, remodeling, removal or demolition of a building, structure or other improvement within its jurisdiction as provided by this chapter.
CERTIFICATE OF ECONOMIC HARDSHIP: A certificate issued by the commission authorizing an alteration, construction, removal or demolition even though a certificate of appropriateness has previously been denied.
COMMISSION: The Riverside preservation commission.
DEMOLITION: Any act or process which destroys, in whole or in part, a building, structure or other object.
DESIGN CRITERIA: Any established objective detail or standard that will preserve the historical or architectural character of a building, structure, object or area designated under this chapter.
EXTERIOR ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES: The architectural character, general composition and general arrangement of the exterior of a building or structure, including the kind and texture of the building material and the type and character of all windows, doors, signs and appurtenant elements visible from public streets and thoroughfares.
GENERAL PLAN OF RIVERSIDE: The plan designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, in collaboration with Calvert Vaux And Olmsted, Vaux And Company in 1869 (set forth in section 11-1-5, appendix A of this chapter).
HISTORIC LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL DISTRICT: That district which contains all of the corporate boundaries of the village of Riverside except that part of the fourth division of Riverside lying west of First Avenue and improved and unimproved Forbes Road, and that part of the village situated in the Riverside lawn subdivision.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION DISTRICT: For purposes of this chapter, said district shall include all of the corporate boundaries of the village of Riverside (which is also contained within the perimeters of the general plan of Riverside and set forth in the zoning map of the village), except for that part of the village situated in the Riverside lawn subdivision.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: (A)A building, structure, area or monument associated with the life or activities of a person or persons who have contributed to or participated in the history or historic events of the nation, state of Illinois or village of Riverside.
(B)A building, structure, area or monument associated with a historic event having significance to the nation, state of Illinois or village of Riverside.
IMPROVEMENT: Any building, structure, fence, parking facility or other object affixed, attached to, erected or installed on real property.
LANDMARK: Any improvement heretofore or hereafter designated in this chapter. For purposes of this chapter, the term "landmark" also includes the Riverside landscape architectural district.
PLANTINGS: For purposes of this chapter, shall include all tree and other landscape plantings to the parks, including triangular or pocket parks and parkways within the historic preservation district, by applying the landscape planting theories of Frederick Law Olmsted, including the following:
(A)Pastoral: A planting design intended to reinforce the rural landscape qualities of the area, wherein the beautiful appearance is stressed; characterized by informal yet smoothly defined spaces, groupings and masses of trees of various heights and size surrounding both broad, open areas of space as well as smaller compact or pocket areas of space to enhance the qualities of nature existing in the landscape and provide a pleasant visual experience.
(B)Picturesque: A planting design included within an overall pastoral planting concept, intended to create rough, rugged landscape qualities to provide natural buffer zones, as between a river and riverbank, wherein the wild appearance is stressed; characterized by imposing, dark masses of plantings in a variety of textures, materials and forms to project a wild, natural setting and provide a diversity of landscape experience.
STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER: The director of the Illinois historic preservation agency or his or her designee. (Ord. 1971, 12-2-1991; amd. Ord. 2550, 12-19-2005; Ord. 2900, 3-3-2016)
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| 1 | 1. See title 4, chapter 1 of this code. |